Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most…

“Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“You could fling open every closet of regret and desire in yourself and the people you loved, and still there would be one closet…

— David Burr Gerrard

“There was too much protection in a drone, protection that was also a denial of one’s own humanity, very much like the protection offered…

— David Burr Gerrard

“To talk about something is the first step toward invading it.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“I had always thought that vaginas, with their flaps and folds, looked somehow unfinished.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“Genocide, as many have noted, is a form of community-building.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“All across the region the sexual revolution would arrive by tank.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“Subtle! Subtlety is bourgeois. Brecht us that when he popped drama’s cherry. He fucked drama until it stopped being subtle, like a lady, and…

— David Burr Gerrard

“The epiphany machine will not discover anything about you that you do not, in some way, already know. But think for a moment about…

— David Burr Gerrard

“Don’t go to the protest. Go out and get laid. Unless you’re going to the protest to get laid.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body will burn?”

— David Burr Gerrard

“The months after the fall of the Wall constituted one of the few points in history when the past seemed to lead to the…

— David Burr Gerrard

“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“Human beings are terrible things, Arthur.”

— David Burr Gerrard